” “You would let him—knowing—all that you know?” “Why not? She is my flesh and blood. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. She came very near that night to resolving that she would return to her home next morning. It frightened her to behold her heart and mind thus laid bare; but the chapter following would reassure her. It brought no coconut. " "It was the knowledge of this feeling on your part, my love, that made me act without your express sanction. As it was, my oldest and trustiest setter, Abraham Mendez, received a blow on the head from one of the lads that will deprive me of his services for a week to come,—if, indeed it does not disable him altogether. ” “It is odd that this man at the hospital should call himself Meysey Hill,” she remarked. No more did she offer her forehead for the good-night kiss. The sunshine broke across each shoulder, one lance striking the yellow face of a Chinaman, queueless and dressed in European clothes, the other lance falling squarely upon the face of the man he had journeyed thirteen thousand miles to find. It melted her heart. His name was Marvel, and his avocation, which was as repulsive as his looks, was that of public executioner. The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself.
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